Key: Bb major
Verse 1
B
G
F#
B
A young Indian
E
B
F#
mother with anxious eyes,
B
E
B
Sat by a cradle neath sullen skies.
E
B
Her warrior hunter had not returned,
F#
B
E
B
But bravely to her babe she turned.
B
E
my little Pa poose,
B
G#m
C#m
F#
The bright apple fall s from the bough.
E
G
The trembling leaf knows
B
E
the north wind's a thief,
B
E
B
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
E
B
But you will sleep somehow.
B
F#
the empty rack,
E
B
and corn by the sack.
With fear in her heart
E
B
F#
she turned to the child,
B
E
And as wolves closed in she
E
B
High flies the goose, my little papoose,
E
B
G#m
The bright apple falls
C#m
F#
from the bough.
E
G
B
The trembling leaf knows
B
E
B
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
E
B
But you will sleep somehow.
B
F#
from her tattered shawl
B
E
Watched the brown -eyed child
The wolves would make
E
B
F#
certain he didn't know
E
B
F#
B
they would lie neath the snow
E
B
E
High flies the goose, my little Papoose
B
G#m
C#m
The bright apple fall s from the bough
F#
E
G
The trembling leaf knows
B
E
the north wind's a thief,
B
E
B
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
E
B
But you will sleep somehow.
E
B
F#
Then faint on the wind a hi -yi -o h,
B
E
The clip -clop of Burroughs,
E
B
Her warrior hunter at last had returned
F#
B
E
There was food, there were furs,
E
B
E
High flies the goose, my little papoose
B
G#m
C#m
F#
The bright apple falls from the bough
E
G
The trembling leaf knows
B
E
the north winds a -thieve
B
E
B
But you will sleep somehow, somehow
F#
B
But you will sleep somehow
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